As if the task of reviving the Giants' season were not big enough for Coach Jim Fassel, he will have to do it with two fewer defensive starters after the team placed safety Shaun Williams and end Kenny Holmes on season-ending injured reserve...

November 20, 2003, Thursday

San Francisco's All-Pro wide receiver Terrell Owens and Giants safeties Shaun Williams and Omar Stoutmire were fined today for their actions during the final minute of their teams' playoff game last Sunday. Owens was fined $10,000 for...

Michael Strahan said he didn't know who Wilbert Brown was before Sunday's game at Washington, but Brown quickly earned notoriety among the Giants. Before a couple of exchanges with Strahan just before halftime, Brown, an offensive lineman for the...

December 10, 2002, Tuesday

The play clock winds down, the quarterback is committed to a play and Giants safety Shaun Williams moves forward toward the line of scrimmage, like a big cat stalking. Sometimes he blitzes in this way, but mostly he is reacting to something he...

October 22, 2002, Tuesday

Tiki Barber will not say much when the Giants play the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, and he will be in the minority. Barber genially taps the helmet of the defenders who tackle him and sometimes adds, ''Nice job'' -- probably a form of reverse...

Fourteen games into his rookie season of 1998, the Giants' coaching staff finally came to Shaun Williams and told him the team would need him for something other than special teams. A safety who was the team's first-round draft pick eight months...

November 5, 2000, Sunday

Shaun Williams, a first-round draft pick now in his first year as a starter for the Giants, failed an important test Sunday night against the Washington Redskins. He knows that another test will come this Sunday against the Tennessee Titans, and he...